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BOSTON - Updated, 7:39 p.m. The Red Sox are parting ways with Manny Ramirez, sending him to Los Angeles in a startling, three-team trade today that will bring Pirates outfielder Jason Bay to Boston. The Sox also give up Brandon Moss and Craig Hansen.
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GILFORD - The man accused of firing numerous rifle shots outside an exotic nightclub Tuesday night later told police he was trying to scare the bouncers.
Updated, 9:01 a.m. The newly chosen police chief of Salisbury was arrested in Meredith last week and charged with assaulting his wife.
MANCHESTER - To bring residents from all the city's neighborhoods together, Weed & Seed Coordinator Nicole Rodler is throwing a citywide block party Aug. 2, part of 2008 National Night Out celebration.
With a swastika tattooed across his chest, Jesse Jarvis waved a stolen German flag then eluded police. Nine days later, he was arrested during a raid in Charlestown in which his father was shot to death.
CONWAY - Updated, 10:27 a.m. An East Conway man died last night in a motorcycle crash on East Conway Road in the village of Redstone, police said.
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Manchester - Saying Manchester has become a "dangerous and disgusting city to live in," Hillsborough County Superior Court Judge Gillian Abramson yesterday said a prison sentence was necessary for Klanesha Landry, the female mastermind of a botched home invasion burglary, because "The general deterrent message is so strong."
MERRIMACK - Police have identified the Merrimack woman who disappeared into the swift waters of the Souhegan River at Wildcat Falls Tuesday afternoon as Susan Bonitatibus, 48, of 12 Edward Lane.
An anti-tax group that aims to curb municipal spending has wrapped up its petition drives in Manchester and Concord, announcing it has collected enough signatures to ensure its proposal will go before voters in both communities this November.
BRENTWOOD - Already facing a felony manslaughter charge, Adam Mentus, 19, (right) has been keeping busy in jail by creating a list of people he wants to "smash" when he gets out, prosecutors say. The list includes the sister of Deidre Budzyna, the 20-year-old Atkinson woman killed last month when a shot Mentus allegedly fired pierced the back of her car seat, traveled through her lungs and killed her, according to police.
State GOP officials and the McCain campaign are in heavy negotiations with the RNC over the status of the state's delegation to the national convention.
MANCHESTER - Updated, 12:25 p.m. A local man, charged with robbing TD BankNorth, told police he spent most of the $2,700 he stole on drugs, according to police.
CONCORD - Updated, 10:54 a.m. A Boscawen man is under arrest on identity fraud and forgery charges, thanks to a Crimeline tip, police said.
PLAISTOW - The New Hampshire Banking Department is taking aim at The Mortgage Specialists Inc. with allegations of fraudulent loans and altered documents at the mortgage company.
The fifth person named in the savage beating of David Mosel was taken into custody without incident Tuesday night in Brockton, Mass. Police said Marcial Crespo, 28, of 289 Central St., turned himself in to Brockton police.
In McCain's universe, the planets rotate around the sun. In Obama's universe, he is the sun.
Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican senator, was indicted Tuesday on seven felony counts of concealing gifts from an oil contractor. Ah, if only Republicans had kept their promises of 1994.
New Hampshire's annual Christian music festival in Gilford draws big-name acts from Flyleaf to Pillar.
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